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The Swiss seven-member government pose with newly elected Swiss Minister Ueli Maurer (2nd from the R) after election on December 10, 2008 in Bern. L to R: Doris Leuthard, Hans-Rudolf Merz, Pascal Couchepin, Moritz Leuenberger, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Ueli Maurer and Federal Chancellor Corina Casanova. The far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) regained its place in government today as lawmakers elected hardline conservative Ueli Maurer to the Federal Council. Maurer just scraped by, gaining the required majority of 122 votes out of 243 after three rounds of tense voting in parliament and will take his seat as defence minister when the new Council takes office in January 2009.. Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council is set up, according to the so-called "magic formula" in place since 1959, to guarantee stability with right and left-wing ministers from the four main parties running the country side by side without a prime minister. AFP PHOTO / POOL / PETER SCHNEIDER
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Bern, SWITZERLAND |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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PETER SCHNEIDER |
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10 Decembrie 2008 |
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